Theses and Dissertations
Autonomous underway replenishment at sea for Riverine operations
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2008-03)
Currently the United States Navy is making a small footprint in the world's littoral regions with the help of the United States Marine Corps. In Iraq, the Marine Corps is actively conducting Riverine operations, however ...
A comparison of ship maneuvering characteristics for rudders and podded propulsors
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2003-06)
A comparison of a high speed container ship using a rudder versus a podded propulsor is made to study replacing a rudder with a pod. A mathematical model is altered to simulate a ship operating with a rudder and with a pod ...
Throughput evaluation of an autonomous sustainment cargo container system
(Monterey California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2007-12)
With the development of new concepts in military operations and reductions in manpower of our military forces, the promotion of autonomous systems has been pushed to the forefront. Autonomous containers will play an ...
Sensitivity and trade-off analysis of wave making resistance and stability of small water plane area trimarans
(Monterey, CaliforniaNaval Postgraduate School, 2007-09)
Recent concept ship designs have called for a vessel with the capability to lift and transport multiple medium displacement combatant boats, approximately 40 to 100 tons, at high speeds over thousands of nautical miles. ...
CFD analysis of a pentahulled, air entrapment, high speed planing [sic] planning vessel
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2008-03)
The objective of this thesis is to analyze the hydrodynamic properties of a specialized pentahulled, air entrapment, and high-speed planning vessel. Due to the unique features of this hull, a multi-layered approach based ...
Incorporating multi-criteria optimization and uncertainty analysis in the model-based systems engineering of an autonomous surface craft
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2009-09)
This thesis presents an effective methodology and tool set, that explicitly considers technological uncertainty, to enable design, development, and assessment of alternative system concept architectures for an autonomous ...
Cargo throughput and survivability trade-offs in force sustainment operations
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2008-06)
Force sustainment requires an optimum supply of resources to maintain and project power in an area. With sustainment reaching ever farther from the origin of supplies, commanders find an increasing exposure of their logistic ...
Physics-based modeling and assessment of mobile landing platform system design
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2008-09)
In this thesis, the overall throughput rate is examined from a container ship servicing the Sea Base to the objective ashore with attention paid to the Mobile Landing Platform. An initial study was conducted using a variety ...
Cost benefit and capability analysis of Sea-Base connectors
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2009-09)
S) cost of the connectors studied is used along with specific performance data such as maximum payload (in tons), maximum speed (in knots) when loaded to maximum payload, and maximum range (in nautical miles) when operated ...
Seakeeping Analysis of Small Displacement High-Speed Vessels
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2003-03)
In developing designs for high speed vessels, the engineer must account for the response of the ship in the environment while operating at mission essential speeds. This thesis presents a seakeeping analysis of David Taylor ...
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